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Public Roads was first published in May 1918. So, that makes the magazine 80 years old. But this is not an old, stodgy magazine. Public Roads maintains the strength, vitality, energy, and enthusiasm of the young - knowing that the best years are yet to come.

Wykle made these remarks in a speech at the "Superpave: Today and Tomorrow" conference April 21-23 in St. Louis. At the conference, sponsored jointly by the Asphalt Institute and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the latest news on trends and technology related to Superpavetm - the high-performance asphalt pavement mix design system - were reported.

A single highway construction contract can easily produce 10,000 pages of documents. In a state, such as Iowa, that awards an average of 300 highway contracts annually, the contracts let in only one year can generate a stack of paper as tall as a 40-story building.

On April 21, 1998, Dr. Christine Johnson, director of the Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (JPO) was interviewed by Bob Bryant, editor of Public Roads.

Many within the transportation community are familiar with the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) technology transfer centers and the services they provide to officials of local governments.

While many in the transportation community know something about the overall world of highway financing, most are not aware of its magnitude, complexity, intergovernmental nature, or - most importantly - where the money comes from and where it goes.